Hi All, been noting the mail exchange on Global representation of OSGeo Board.
I totally agree with friends who have expressed that location is not of great
concern.
But may I present some situations where in, being present in the area of
interest
is quite crucial.
To promote freely available geodata:
OSGeo India , has completed a Project in a second tier town and, we are
placing this as free data on the web.
To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry
We are encouraging people to take up indic translation of the front-end of
the software and customisation, such that; Ex: The sanitary department can
just use a customised OpenGIS (Say GRASS) to take his decissions than learn
the entire gamut of GIS.
To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum
development, outreach, and support.
OSGeo India has trained the students of Geoinformatics in actually making
the GIS data sets. Now the institute is going to teach Open GIS, for its
students.
I doubt if it is possible to plan all this, without being near abouts at the
least.
For a local chapter to be on the OSGeo board:
This can defnitely add to their self esteem, if not any thing else.
Some of the highlited lines are actually picked from OSGeo Goals.
Cheers
Ravi Kumar
P.S:
OSGeo Goals The following more detailed goals support the overall
mission:
To provide resources for foundation projects - eg. infrastructure, funding,
legal.
To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data.
To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not
just foundation software) - eg. PR, training, outreach.
To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based
interoperability in foundation projects.
To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build
and preserve the foundation "brand".
To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - eg.
binary "stack" builds, cross package documentation.
To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum
development, outreach, and support.
To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on
different language (eg. Java/C/Python) and operating system (eg. Win32, Unix,
MacOS) platforms.
To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide
community through internationalization of software and community outreach.
To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related
efforts (eg. EOGEO).
To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.
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